MOD: 5891 Apple Tree House XL

[finnbricker]

Here's my version of the Apple Tree House, to fit my modular city's suburban area. I felt the Apple Tree House as such was very small and not in scale with the modulars, so I bought two sets and tried to combine them to create one "XL-sized" house. All bricks come from those two sets, with the exception of a couple of dark blue roof tiles. (During building, I also decided to substitute combinations of 1x4+1x6 or 1x6+1x6 bricks with 1x10 or 1x12 bricks, because I needed the shorter bricks for other projects.)

There's no interior and the garage is as small as in the original, so no cars actually fit in through the low door.

Here's an overview.

Overview showing the building with the roof detached.

As you can see, I have been as faithful to the original design as possible. However, the shrubs and apple trees in the garden have been relocated.

Finally the very plain backside of the house. There's an overhang of 1 stud in the back, but this is easily fixed by moving the house forward by one stud, if needed. As you can see, it sits on three 16x32 baseplates, and the extra baseplate came into use in another project. I feel that the garden would have been too big if I had used all four baseplates for this.

I hope you like it!

Edited July 1, 2014 by finnbricker

[tkatt]

You have done a good job in making the house bigger, but I think the garage door is too prominent. Perhaps you could swap the locations of the garage door and the front door. The front entrance would look very nice under the centrally placed gable roof.

[jimmynick]

This looks nice, like it would fit well into a rural or suburban modular town, but I agree with tkatt about the prominence of the garage.